I found The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish by London sound-artist Keith Berry by accident. I was actually searching on ebay for William Basinski (a New York minimalist musician most famous for his The Disintegration Loops series in memory of 9/11) and this album popped up under the…

I’ve completed the Genesis Mark 1.5 three album catalogue* with a purchase of Trick of the Tail. I have to say on only the first or second listening I can tell this is going to be pushing for my favourite Genesis album of all (currently The Lamb Lies Down on…

We really knew the Tonight’s the Night songs so we just played them again, the album, top to bottom, two sets a night for a few days. As his fans will know Neil Young has been releasing loads of live recordings from the vaults over the last few years. …

Got a real “marmite” record on review here. The incredible Incredible String Band record is frankly amazing. It’s just very different. It’s fairly indescribable. …

After a brief vocoderised introduction King Crimson’s latest (and possibly final?) studio album from 2003 launches with a trademark power instrumental a la Red or Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (entitled Level 5 could this be Larks’ Tongues Part V?). Here the drums thrash and crash, and the duel guitars trace…

The Simmer Dim is both great and poor. …

I had a Saturday job at a town caf called Macaris. We were just a bunch of sixth form school kids who knew nothing, just there to earn a few quid and gain some useful job experience at the weekends, either practically or for the CV, who knows, in those…

As the title suggests this album of Can remixes was a risky project but it actually works pretty well and there are some exciting…

Black Sabbath’s Born Again appeared in 1983 with a disturbing cover that reminded me of the final fade out scene from the terrifying…